Several years ago, I designed a comprehensive sound system which would be the major furniture for one room devoted to entertaining. It's called 'Pillaster'.
The Pillaster is a pyramidal sound and video unit with everything built in. It would take every known format of data including vinyls, 8 tracks, standard cassette, DAT, DVD, CD-rom, VHS, beta, laserdisc, microcassette, and possibly others, (which I haven't thought of yet). There would be a single insert for all the formats, which the Pillaster   more...takes your data through and detects the format, and proceeds to automatically play and display the contents.
Pillaster is equipped with on board projector, lighting, laser effects, strobes, and also on all four sides, all ranges of audio outputs with bass woofers at bottom and tweeters on top. It is augmented with a meta-touch-screen display for controls and display of ram and rom media. It is made from ebony, brass and carbon fibre glass. This system is truly the design of a millennium, and the only furniture you need! Z  less

I'm personally impressed, and have been, ever since seeing a NORD Clavia. Sure, there are many sound processors that have its on-board features. However, this particular machine; NORD Lead 3, has enough mod accessories to comfortably augment any electronic output. The rack version of this machine is without a keyboard and mod wheels, but still has all the features you could want for augmentation. Its specialty is the digitally accurate analog control devices, ie. the mass of knobs it has, with their   more...digital readouts. The features you may desire to add with other equipment are different and specific sound mods like tube, ring, or envelopment mods. This macine is otherwise capable of modifying frequency and wave form shape to the nth degree.

The next step is the NORD Modular, which is an expanded version of the Lead 3, with 16x the processing capability, and, on-board software which is ultimately a simplified version of Reason.

In my book, the NORD line of ware is top quality, ergonomics and user friendliness.  less

In the case of Audio, I prefer the warmer tones of analog...in the case of video which usally uses analog sound, digitally upgraded, I prefer digital. In the case of editing I prefer non-linear, both in audio and video. digital recordings taken from an analog source sound better than strictly taken from a DAT or other digital recording device...I prefer it be recorded on analog and backed up on digital as most recordings have been for some time...I mean do you honestly think that the source material   more...for a CD from the Doors started as digital? no, of course not...it was analog to begin with, then recorded on a digital medium. just to re-iterate what some learned people already know, digital recording is just another way to record, digital records sounds in 1's and 0's, its the way the information is gathered which is different...which is why you can have DAT which is still tape but records the information as 1's and 0's as opposed to magnetic ticks on the tape...same medium, different way of recording the information and that simply is all it is.  less

I skateboarded for 7 years and you're right. Nobody likes us. I've skated in 12 states and its always the same everywhere you go. I think its because alot of the skaters destroy property and do a lot of drugs and give us other skaters bad names.